Australians have complete morons too, I see.

[theweaselking]

"Kevin Zuccato, head of the Australian High Tech Crime Centre in Canberra, says terrorists can gain training in games such as World of Warcraft in a simulated environment, using weapons that are identical to real-world armaments."

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[mhoye.livejournal.com]

So the TSA is going to take away my Halbard of Smiting and my bottled water, now?

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I needed that laugh.

(I would make some clever joke about how $WoW_ITEM_OF_SHININESS was so very, very realistic, but I don't play WoW, so don't know any item names, alas.)

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

Well, just think about any weapon that's NOT equivalent to a current real-world weapon, and you should be close...

(Seriously, is there ANY weapon in WoW that is actually used effectively in present-day combat?)

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

Wait, now that I think about it, I suppose some of the engineer-made bombs and hunter guns are... er... vaguely in the ballpark? Or at least not too far from the stadium?

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

I have this great mental image now of a suicide bomber screaming "kekekeke zerg rush!!!"

[jerril]

Australians have absolutely no shortage of morons. Especially in government, although they don't exactly have a monopoly.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Sadly, yes.

*sigh*

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It is depressing.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

OH SHITS, AL QAEDA HAS THE ANATHEMA STAFF! THEIR SHADOW PRIESTS WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE!

[kookiemaster.livejournal.com]

Fess up Zuccato! You just want to be able to play WoW all day at work and call it "research"!

[jl-williams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but that's only really true until you hit level 40; after that you're just sort of grinding your way through things mindlessly.

Wait.. I was thinking of LotR. Never mind.

[falconwarrior.livejournal.com]

But I'll bet the real world armaments don't add the crazy stam and spell crit that my [The Bringer of Death] does.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Um. I didn't vote for them?

I'm really, really sorry. On behalf of my country.

[chaosrah.livejournal.com]

Hm, you know, it's talking about Second Life, not WoW. If it was talking about WoW, I'd laugh. But Second Life, you can do pretty much anything, so I'm not really surprised they'd use it for "training". I tried that "game" and said fuck it. If I'm gonna play a virtual game, I'd want fantasy, not real life that isn't really real...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

They *start* talking about Second Life, but the guy said World Of Warcraft.

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

WoW = Not really.
SL = Kind of.